Plastic fantastic
Last year, major Australian supermarkets have stopped using thin plastic bags to save the environment from more pollution. I don’t know about others, but I’m still using plastic bags as …
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The Woke versus the Poor
My favourite American urbanist and demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes how the quest for social justice so often harms the poor: Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good …
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Chernobyl versus nuclear power
I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …
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The world to end; Millennials hardest hit
If Millennials strike many of their elders as rather feckless perpetual adolescents who live in the present and don’t think of the future, it might be because they actually think …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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The End is Nigh: Millennials hardest hit
Religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to traditional religions, the instinct and the patterns of belief merely get …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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Yes, please don’t breed
There is now a group of some 60 men and women apparently, and no doubt growing fast, not least thanks to all the extra publicity, called Birth Strike. They, you’ve …
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Farewell to Carbs
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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No, “Blade Runner” and “The Running Man” did not predict 2019
I normally rate “The New York Post” as far as tabloids are concerned but this feature on the prophetic side of the 1980s dystopian science-fiction reads more like something out …
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Neuston, we have a problem
How often do we see good intentions not translating into good results? A very interesting new example – as we attempt to clean up the oceans from plastic (good thing …
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No meat and two veg
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible collection of men proudly waving their genitalia around in public …
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Radioactive mutant wolves of Chernobyl
Where would we be without tabloids to inform us about important scientific news? Scientists fear wolves living in Chernobyl’s radioactive forbidden zone may be spreading mutant genes across Europe. The …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”, Part 3
Once you see it once, you start seeing it everywhere: New York City’s incoming socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says there will only be benefits, and no costs, to passing a …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”, Part 2
An apt follow up to my blog post yesterday about political activists using the climate change issue as an excuse and a cover to push for a radical transformation of our …
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“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”
Earlier this year I blogged about the important distinction between supporters and activists. When we look at left-wing political, social, economic and other causes and movements we need to distinguish …
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Let them eat carbon
I’m glad that I got the chance to walk down Avenue des Champs-Elysees from Arc de Triomphe towards Louvre when doing so did not mean getting gassed by the police …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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America has more witches than Presbyterians
Salem, we have a problem: A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be …
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